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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gets thrown on Frieda and K.?
(a) Their clothes.
(b) A sheet.
(c) A bucket of water.
(d) A rug.

2. What does Schwarzer tell K. in the beginning of the novel when the two first meet?
(a) That K. has no permission to be there.
(b) That K. has to work for his board at the inn.
(c) That K. has to show papers bearing the royal seal from the Castle.
(d) That K. is welcome in the village.

3. Who does Frieda say the assistants really want?
(a) Barnabas.
(b) Klamm.
(c) Frieda.
(d) K.

4. How does K. feel when he leaves the meeting with the chairman?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Unsatisfied.
(d) Happy.

5. What do the assistants do when K. makes them leave?
(a) Leave quietly.
(b) Pull down the curtains and break lamps as they leave.
(c) Bang at the windows and doors.
(d) Bring drums and trumpets to make noise outside the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frieda ask K. to do?

2. What answer do K.'s assistants get when they call the Castle for permission to visit?

3. What do Artur and Jeremias look like?

4. Where does K. go with the people he meets on the road?

5. What reason does Frieda suggest for letting the assistants return?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Castle react to inquiries about K. when he first arrives?

2. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

3. What reason does K. give for refusing to let the assistants come back?

4. How does K. react to the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting?

5. How does K. feel in the village?

6. How does the chairman's wife act during K.'s visit?

7. To what does the landlady attribute the profitability of the inn?

8. Who are the people in the house K. stops at on his way toward the Castle?

9. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

10. What happens when K. first wakes up the morning after meeting Frieda?

(see the answer keys)

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